Crime & Safety

Police Issue Endangered Missing Child Alert For 2-Year-Old

River Rouge Boy Allegedly Taken By Father

Police issued an endangered missing child alert for a 20year-old River Rouge boy, last seen with his father after a visit Monday morning. Police in River Rouge began their search for Denver Statton Jan 8, after the child went missing, along with a 2001 silver Ford Taurus. Denver is assumed to be with his father, Steven Miracle, who’d been visiting his son overnight at a house on Pine Street.

No Amber Alert was issued because there were no threats of harm made. The police are also not viewing the incident as an abduction because Miracle was invited into the home. The missing car’s license plate number DND5072. Denver is described as a blonde, blue-eyed boy weighing approximately 47 lbs, and standing about 3’ feet tall. He was last seen in a tan Carhart top.

River Rouge Police ask anyone with information about the father and son’s whereabouts to call 911 or to contact River Rouge Police at 313-842-8700, Ext #5.

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Photos of Denver Statton and Steven Miracle via Michigan State Police.

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